Date: | 1903–1904 |
Material: | Brown wax |
Company: | Excelsior / Maléville |
Location: | Libourne, France |
Slightly smaller diameter than the 3½ in. Pathé Salon cylinder. Once you bought the Excelsior machine, you could only play cylinders manufactured by Excelsior (the same scheme adopted by O'Neill-James Co. for the Busy Bee record). The machines and cylinders were sold by G. Maleville (Rondeau 2025). Sales were mostly mail order (Caruana-Dingli 2022).
Le Phenix French Cylinder Phonograph Music Player.Phonoguy. Feb. 14, 2022. YouTube video, 8:49.
EXCELSIOR (PHÉNIX) French Phonograph.Antique Phonograph and Photography Site. Accessed Nov. 17, 2025.